"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
11/20/2018 at 18:37 • Filed to: None
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"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
11/20/2018 at 18:37 • Filed to: None | 4
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Since my last !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! post, I’ve spent the last few weekends doing the master bedroom closet and the entryway and closet. First up was the master bedroom closet, which was just big enough that I treated it as its own room. It wasn’t terrible to start with, but it had the same cheapo carpet that we’re tearing out of the rest of the house, and it almost certainly hadn’t been painted since the house was built in 1990. Not captured well in pictures was the fact that all shelves, trim and baseboards were not the same color as the walls.
As always, tearing up old carpet is deeply satisfying. The closet was given a coat of bonding primer, a coat of paint in the off-white color that eventually all ceilings, trim and closets will be in the house, laid down the new flooring and fresh hardware to match the rooms I’ve already done in the house. The previous owner did put in a new light fixture that I kept. It turned out whoever painted that closet originally only caulked all the joints and trim at around eye level, so I spent much time and a couple tubes of caulk doing everything top to bottom. The master bedroom itself will be my next project after the holiday, and the master bath will get an update sometime next year.
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My project this past weekend has been the entryway and closet right off of it. No flooring is involved this time, so this was just paint, hardware and light fixtures. The entryway didn’t look terrible to start with, but it was white (and I’m against white walls in this house outside of a closet because it isn’t the 90's anymore) and ready for a fresh coat of paint. The ceiling in this area and in the closet were past due for fresh paint, as I’d be willing to bet neither had been painted since 1990.
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Everything got a coat of bonding primer, followed by painting the ceiling, trim and closet and then the wall color. I’m happy with the end result. I’ve spent a lot of time in closets the past couple of months. I’ll be glad when I run out of closets to paint in this house.
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A new (and matching finish) deadbolt and door handle set for the front door will come later. I need to do some homework to see what I actually want, and how good of a lock set I can afford want to buy, and this has implications for all the other outside doors.
I am always closely supervised while working on the house. Ellie doesn’t like anything changing about her house.
BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
11/20/2018 at 20:46 |
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How many hours does this take you? Just painting doors and trim has taken me dozens of hours and it’s SO. BORING.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
11/20/2018 at 21:42 |
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I LOVE attention to detail, so it takes me many, many hours. T here’s the painting itself and then there’s the prep. For the latter job (entryway and closet) I could do it over two full days (I did it over three, because I went golfing yesterday afternoon).
There was a half day of prep before hand washing walls, filling nail holes, removing doors, hardware, switc h and outlet covers, masking off and covering the floor and windows, ect.... It probably takes an hour or two with the brush and roller to paint each part, but there is probably almost as much set up and clean up for each painting part also. My order of operations works out to a coat of bonding primer, a coat of eggshell on the ceiling, a coat of semi-gloss on the closets and trim, and then the coat of wall color in satin. I wait until the next day to cut in around the edges by hand so that I can steady a hand or arm against the wall as needed and the ceiling/trim is fully dried so that I can wipe off any mistakes with a wet cloth and redo them if needed . It also depends of what I’m painting. Big walls don’t take long to roll out, but closets, book shelves and other detail stuff takes much longer. Even more so because I insist on painting the underside of shelves and the back/upper side of trim inside closets that most people don’t see/don’t bother to paint well.
Cutting in around the edges by hand takes a long time after everything else, but done well it gives me a deeply satisfying sharp line that I can’t match with tape . For the entryway , it took me probably three or four hours of zen to do all the edges. Much like long-range target shooting and driving racecars, I find it strangely relaxing in that I am intensely focused on one thing to the exclusion of the rest of world with immediate feedback on how well I’m doing it (or not). Interestingly, I did learn this morning that there is one blues musician I can’t listen to while cutting in. I enjoy it too much and want to move along to the music, and that isn’t conducive to zen I need for that job.
Painting could be done much, much faster and cheaper than I’m doing it, but I’m trying to do this in such as way so as not to have to do it again for a very long time.
shop-teacher
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
11/21/2018 at 10:46 |
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Big improvement!